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Bookmark The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review
Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South…

February 22 2020, 8:46am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Dark deconstructions of children's TV shows/characters? I've read fantastic, dark - often very political analyses - of TV shows like Thomas the Tank Engine, Teletubbies, Mr.Blobby, and Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch.... but I'd like to find some more. What other dystopian, playful, surreal, philosophical, deconstructive readings of kid's…

August 18 2019, 8:47am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments
Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks
Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin Explains How to Build a New Kind of…
By Ursula K. Le Guin These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you…

December 6 2017, 10:19pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Doug Lain - Capitalism: Is There No Alternative? | Legalise Freedom
Spiralling rates of poverty, inequality, depression, and disenchantment are warning signs that the capitalist system as we know it is in deep trouble. http://legalise-freedom.com/radio/doug-lain-capitalism-is-there-no-alternative/

May 10 2017, 4:43pm | Comments
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March 1 2017, 6:10am | Comments
Bookmark Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future - The Washington Post
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here. Charles…

June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments
Bookmark Technology Is for Rich People - The Atlantic
Silicon Valley’s sunny outlook on technology and opportunity ignores systematic inequalities. Just over a century ago, an electric company in Minnesota took out a full-page newspaper advertisement and listed 1,000 uses…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.

September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments
Portfolio The 3D Additivist Manifesto

March 21 2015, 6:56am | Comments
Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia
Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Stanford scholar asks: What does the traumatic past mean for our future?
Images of a post-apocalyptic world are rife in contemporary literature. Written in 2006, The Road by American author Cormac McCarthy depicts a nearly decimated planet Earth. The probable end of mankind…

November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments
Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone
I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments

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